On Thursday 26 February 2004, jason.corcoran at activant.com (Jason Corcoran)
wrote:
>I have an old 486 DX2 66 that I bought back in the day and I share a
>house with four people looking to use the connection. I am better of
>rolling my own firewall ( mandrake 9.2 with shore wall ) or using some
>thing like smooth wall ?
Hmm - you have two chances of installing Mandrake 9.2 on such an old box. It
does meet smoothwall's minimum spec. (provided it has at least 32MB of RAM -
NOT a given in such an old box) although a Pentium is recommended but I
imagine if you don't try to do anything exotic like VPN or running squid, it
should be fine.
>The modem is a usb and ether net jobie ( Terayon Cable Modem (TJ 70x series)
Should be as smooth as a baby's bum to use its Ethernet connection - most
likely it's going to do DHCP.
>One of the guys in the house wants to connect his x box for on line
>gaming. Are there any special considerations that should be taken into
>account when setting up the fire wall ??
A search for "smoothwall xbox" on google gets nearly 4000 hits - might be a
good place to start.
Niall
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